Marcus Iunius Iuncus

Broughton: See 75, Promagistrates.

MT: in 75 he was proconsul in Asia (75/74). During this time the young Caesar (25/26 years, and went to study in Rhodes) had been captured and released (against ransom) by pirates. Caesar then organised some ships and captured the pirates. He then asked Iunius to punish them but the proconsul didn't act (instead he was eying the pirates' funds including presumably the ransom from Caesar). In the end Caesar took matters into his own hands and had the pirates crucified. (Plut. Caes. 2, note: in Plutarch's account he combines two different trips from Caesar, a trip in 81 to Macedonia and this one to Rhodes. But it's the Rhodes trip where the pirate incident happens, according to Stadter).